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CompTIA SY0-401 Security+ Pop Quiz Online – Quiz #3

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In which of these cases would you be most likely to use tarpitting?
- Spam filtering
- None of the above
- Wireless network authentication
- IPsec encryption
- Mitigate a DDoS attack

What kind of auditing should be used to validate your user permissions?
- Usage auditing
- Operating system auditing
- Escalation auditing
- Privilege auditing
- Administrative auditing

Which of these database types is most associated with big data?
- NoSQL
- ODBC
- MySQL
- SQL
- RDBMS

Which of these would be the best description of PAP?
- An encrypted tunnel between two locations
- A symmetric encryption cipher
- Used for digital signatures
- A symmetric encryption cipher
- Cleartext password exchange

Which of these would not be considered OS hardening?
- Change the management interface credentials
- Disable unnecessary accounts
- Disable unnecessary services
- Create an IPsec tunnel
- Require complex passwords

Which of these would restrict the installation of unapproved applications on a mobile device?
- MDM whitelisting
- Storage segmentation
- Credential management
- Geo-fencing
- Device encryption

Which of these would be an advantage of PFS?
- Does not use a web server private key for encryption
- Tape backups are stored with improved encryption
- Mitagates some types of social engineering attacks
- Vulnerabilities and attacks are identified in real-time over the network
- Increases the number of authentication factors

Which of these would be categorized as a symmetric encryption cipher?
- HMAC
- Diffie-Hellman
- 3DES
- MD5
- RSA

What protocol type (TCP/UDP) and port number is commonly used for secure terminal communication?
- tcp/20
- tcp/21
- tcp/80
- tcp/22
- tcp/25

Which of these would be the most useful attack to gain access to a WPA2-PSK network?
- Execute a database injection
- Implement a DDoS attack
- Perform a dictionary attack
- Perform a buffer overflow
- Exploit a cryptographic vulnerability

What is the AIC Triad?
- Application, Interconnection, and Contingency
- Availability, Integrity, and Confidentiality
- Accounting, Integrity, and Certification
- Authentication, Initialization, and Challenge
- Access, Identification, and Control

Which of these would not be considered an authentication factor?
- OS installation USB flash
- Password
- GPS location
- Signature
- Fingerprint

How can malware perform activities on your computer that would not normally be possible with your OS permissions?
- Transitive attack
- Spoofing
- Man-in-the-Middle attack
- Privilege Escalation
- Denial-of-service attack

What of these systems would be most likely targeted on a SCADA network?
- Manufacturing equipment
- SQL database server
- Wireless access point
- Multifunction printer
- Point of sale terminal

Which of these would be most commonly associated with a protocol analyzer?
- Identify a known vulnerability traversing the network
- Validate the input of a browser-based application
- Filter ingress and egress traffic by port number or application type
- Identify the sequence number of a traffic flow
- Restrict access to websites based on category or individual URL

In which of these would you be most likely to use TACACS+?
- Authenticate login credentials
- Verify index settings on a SQL database
- Route traffic across redundant network links
- Transfer documents between file servers
- Encrypt all network traffic sent between two sites

Which of these would be the best example of a qualitative risk?
- Upgrading the firewalls to support new encryption types is not in the budget
- The fine for not storing data in encrypted form is $10,000 US per incident
- The help desk staff is not properly trained on the new ERP software
- An Internet outage would lose $4,000 US per minute
- The ERP software won’t receive updates because the annual maintenance fee has not been paid

Which of these would be the best description of Google Mail?
- PaaS
- SaaS
- IaaS
- Private Cloud
- Community Cloud

Which attack type can obtain personal information using an IVR?
- URL hijacking
- Man-in-the-middle
- Spoofing
- Vishing
- Watering hole attack

What attack type waits for a predefined event to occur?
- Rootkit
- Man-in-the-middle
- Ransomware
- Logic bomb
- SQL Injection

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